FIFA claims 'no evidence' that ball struck cable in Jude Bellingham's leveller for England

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/norway/8rP6JO0H/"]Norway[/a]'s players protested to French referee Clement Turpin after [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bellingham-jude/QNvlPm7s/"]Bellingham[/a] scored [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/england-j9N9ZNFA/norway-8rP6JO0H/?mid=UyLHmWuh"]in first-half stoppage time[/a] to make it 1-1 at the Hard Rock Stadium.[/p][p]Footage of [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/nyland-orjan/UJ9btoDi/"]Orjan Nyland[/a]'s goal-kick that started the passage of play which led to Bellingham's goal showed the ball's trajectory appearing to change suddenly and dropping down into the path of [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/england/j9N9ZNFA/"]England[/a] midfielder [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/anderson-elliott/KdYCbsbE/"]Elliot Anderson[/a].[/p][p]Under the laws of the game that should have led to play being halted for a drop ball.[/p][embed guid="c8d83e9f-86e5-4392-a6ab-4c6eb0ac93f0" url="https://x.com/fifamedia/status/2076088395147723022?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]FIFA though said Saturday that a chip sensor embedded in the ball - the same technology used to disallow a goal in [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/croatia/K8aznggo/"]Croatia[/a]'s knockout defeat to [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/portugal/WvJrjFVN/"]Portugal[/a] earlier in the tournament - showed there was no sign of the ball hitting the cable.[/p][p]"[b]Before England's goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the 'heartbeat of the ball' when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball,[/b]" the statement said.[/p]